Archive for the ‘SMS’ Category
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

Mike Ashenfelder writes for the Library Of Congress’ The Signal: Digital Preservation blog about Archiving Cell Phone Text Messages. If you’ve wondered how you can backup and preserve your SMS messages from your cell phone, you’ll want to check out this helpful article.
“Saving text messages is more difficult for basic phones. You have to open the phone, remove its SIM card and display the card’s contents through a SIM card reader. A reader is an inexpensive device into which you pop the SIM card, plug the reader into the USB port on your computer, display the SIM card contents and copy the text messages over. The “Text” format of the text messages is one of the least complex of all the computer file formats, so you can display the contents of a text message file with a basic text editor. You can even display it with a browser; text files get along well with several different programs.”
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Sunday, November 28th, 2010
Zachary Sniderman at Mashable gathers up 39 New Social Media Resources You May Have Missed. These not-to-be-missed articles are broken down into Social Media, Tech & Mobile, and Business categories. Here are just a few:
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Chris Mautner at The Patriot News asks What’s good about texting? This quick and helpful article discusses the educational uses of texting.
“Let’s say you’re doing a lecture and you want to find out if the audience is “getting it.” Programs such as Poll Everywhere will let you pose questions to the audience, who can then text back their responses. Their answers are then calculated live and you can see instantly what percentage of the classroom understands the material. “You get instant feedback,” Palmer says. “In a classroom of students no one wants to raise their hand and say ‘I don’t understand.’ But if they can anonymously text in, you can figure out what percentage of the class is having trouble.””
Via @Gerry McKiernan
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Friday, October 16th, 2009
If you’re interested in text/SMS reference in libraries, please check out my latest Stacking the Tech column, Text Message Reference: Is It Effective?
“The biblioblogosphere is replete with posts announcing the launch of new SMS (text message) reference services at a steadily increasing number of academic libraries. The appeal of these services is more or less self-evident given the ubiquity of mobile devices on campus.
Journal articles and conference sessions are filled with discussions of products and platforms, as well as strategies to market the new programs including YouTube videos, home page links, and Facebook applications. However, so far little has been gathered about how effective this type of service really is and whether or not it’s something that patrons find useful.”
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Yahoo!Tech reports that U.S. wireless subscribers sent 1 trillion SMS messages in 2008, three times the 363 billion text messages sent in 2007. “That comes out to about 3,700 text messages annually—or 10 texts a day—for every cell phone subscriber”.
And SMS messaging is even more popular with college students, 94% of whom send and receive text messages according to a recent study by Ball State University. The survey of 300 college students found that text messaging is now the main form of communication amongst college students.
via Textually.org
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Computerworld presents ten tips and tricks for making use of text messaging, which can be used for brief messages of up to 160 characters, on your cell phone. They suggest the following tasks to get you up and running with SMS (short message service) technology:
- Remember your appointments and schedule new ones
- Track packages, calories and cash
- Compose text messages with your voice
- Get driving directions
- Search Google From the Road
- Keep tabs on flights …
- … and keep tabs on friends
- Transfer files to your phone
- Send text messages from your PC
- Archive your messages
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Wired Magazine describes the formidable competition at the National Texting Championship held earlier this year in New York City. Over 300 competitors from across the country joined together in the Roseland Ballroom to put their texting skills to the test in a series of single-elimination rounds in which participants were given increasingly difficult phrases to type into their cell phones for a chance at $25,000.
In his article, In the World of Competitive Texting, Over 20 Is Over the Hill, Neil Janowitz tells us of the de-throning of a West Coast champ, and the rise of a thirteen year old texter, who according to the event website, sends over 4,000 text messages a month.
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